Chapter 45 Cover & Page 1

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Taro takes out both parents. But Misa, who’d made sure there was a plethora of witnesses and incriminating evidence, has Taro arrested for treason before he can take the throne.

The citizens of Iwatania, who revere Misa for having the integrity to bring her own brother to justice, demand that she be made their Empress.

The cries and accusations from Taro, that Misa had given him the idea and plans for usurping the throne from their father, fall on deaf ears. It turns out that details of all of Taro’s misadventures were somehow leaked to the press.

Again, I suspect this will be a Baron Harkonnen type of deal.
Yes, of course junior will try to stab in the back, but not before Iwatani demonstrates that you still *need* him.
And when daddy is good and ready to retire, he’ll do so when it’s clear that he’s not a threat and just wants to live out his retirement. And junior’s empire will be all the better for it.

If you think about what era they live in (no filtering or purification of water available), then it would be much *safer* to drink some kind of fermented beverage. Unless they have some magical means to purify water, then any source of it would be suspect until people could drink from it & still live.

I am used to flipping fom technicolor to sepia and back to technicolor. At the most suspensful moment too. It is the quality I find most endearing abot this epoch. But one panel? Hey must admit that one panel tells a story.

So the nation is renamed Iwatania, but the people are still referred to as Gastonians?

Interesting that he suspects Miyamoto and Canaghem are the most capable of treachery, but not Bedard or Jarvis. Considering the forces under the latter’s command he must have some leverage over him to avoid a potential overthrow by the military.

Miyamoto’s already shown his hand, so they already know he’s untrustworthy. Caneghem is a Dirty Foreigner, so he’s suspect from the get-go. I wouldn’t be surprised if Bedard and Jarvis have their own plans in motion, but it seems like they’re much better at playing the game intelligently.

“Your job is to watch CGP Grey’s The Rules for Rulers video, so you can learn how your complete lack of interest in actively rewarding supporters is totally really won’t help you. And also how running a monarchy works can actually make your empire less productive, giving you less despite taking a larger proportion of goods produced. Giant robots don’t get made by people without roads.”

Arming every able-bodied adult (male?) in the nation seems like a rather short-sighted move for a despot, even if there *is* a war on. I suppose Iwatani is counting on good PR to stop the people from rising up against him, though. Wonder if that’ll come back to bite him.

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